{"id":17,"date":"2003-02-19T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/2003\/02\/chills\/"},"modified":"2003-02-19T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T13:54:16","slug":"chills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/2003\/02\/chills\/","title":{"rendered":"chills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the gauge is reading well below E.<\/p>\n<p>snow flew in non-stop.  mr. storm came in a big, fat hurry and knocked on our doors saturday afternoon and then he fucking wouldn&#8217;t leave.  he just kept going and going until monday afternoon &#8211;  by the time he left my car was a blob of maroon metallic jelly inside a snow donut.<\/p>\n<p>i managed to catchup on a lot of sleep, having no desire to do anything productive.  for awhile i fancied the idea of being motivated while i was kept prisoner in my house, but instead i enjoyed the company of hockey and ocarinas.  the water temple is a bitch by the way, but my hockey franchise is an even 20 across the board and is now the proud owner of a digital stanley cup.<\/p>\n<p>b-b-b-b-x-y-y-y-right.  b-b-y-y-left.  damn straight.<\/p>\n<p>people went to work yesterday.  there was a state of emergency (SOE) so i figured people wouldn&#8217;t get mad if i decided not to go in.  technically we weren&#8217;t supposed to be driving because of the SOE, and driving is the only way for me to get to work.  add one in my favor because there was a ton of snow on my car.  add another one because the street where my car was parked had not been plowed.<\/p>\n<p>fuck, it still isn&#8217;t plowed.<\/p>\n<p>so like i was saying, i caught up on a lot of sleep but of course the night i decide that i&#8217;m going to go to work the next day (i.e. last night), a massive bout of insomnia hits and i stay up all night.  as in, not go to sleep.  at all.  at around 3 in the morning a car alarm went off and proceeded to wake up the neighborhood for an additional 20 minutes.  it teased us with some 5 minutes of silence and then came roaring back for another 10.  i peeked out my window a couple of times to check if i could see what car it was just in case i came up with some sort of devious plan for retribution&#8230; but i couldn&#8217;t find it.  besides, it wouldn&#8217;t have mattered;  my plans of revenge never seem to make it past the conceptual phase.  probably safer that way.<\/p>\n<p>i rode in with m&#8212; because of the previous problems mentioned;  i&#8217;ve come to decide that i don&#8217;t like how he drives in the snow.  i grew up driving in snow.  i am comfortable driving in snow.  i was not comfortable with m&#8212; driving in snow.  he was running twice the speed everyone else was while being right up on peoples asses.  he kept muttering things like &#8220;sorry buddy, the rules don&#8217;t apply to me&#8221;, and &#8220;damn, why can&#8217;t he get out of the way&#8221; while he cut people off and rode on the wrong side of the road.  my grogginess disallowed any visible nervous twitching, but i definitely kept a mental note of where the <b>oh shit! bar<\/b> was.<\/p>\n<p>at work i&#8217;m full of chills and intoxicated apprehension.  throw clarity out the window and take some nyquil because that&#8217;s where i&#8217;m at.  my capacity to think is excruciatingly low and any attempt at a cerebral conversation ends up being puerile.  i want sex and i need to sleep and i am buck-nutty tired.<\/p>\n<p>on a totally different note, i fell asleep to johnny cash covering  &#8220;hurt&#8221; on both saturday and sunday night.  was that an original NIN song?  holy flircking shnit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the gauge is reading well below E. snow flew in non-stop. mr. storm came in a big, fat hurry and knocked on our doors saturday afternoon and then he fucking wouldn&#8217;t leave. he just kept going and going until monday afternoon &#8211; by the time he left my car was a blob of maroon metallic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}